History of communism: Karl Marx, the hero of the exploited proletariat: 🔹NEVER paid his housemaid 🔹had sex with her 🔹got her pregnant, 🔹disowned his own child. The maid — Helene Demuth (best known as ‘Lenchen’) — received her salary from Karl’s mother-in-law. But Crazy Karl impregnated Helen and then… sent the boy to grow up poor in a foster home. Marx’s welfare provider, Engels, then provided limited financial support to that poor child (Henry), whose birth certificate left blank the father’s name.